Bucshon plans town hall event Thursday evening at Career and Technical Center

EVANSVILLE - Indiana's 8th District congressman Larry Bucshon will hold a town hall event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center, 1901 Lynch Road in Evansville. The public event is expected to last one hour.

Bucshon, a former Newburgh-based heart surgeon, will speak briefly about events in Washington, D.C., and will take questions afterward. The second-term Republican congressman has made several public appearances in Evansville since his election in 2010, but the last local event billed as a town hall meeting occurred in 2011.

The 19-county 8th District includes Vanderburgh, Posey, Gibson and Warrick counties. The district, most recently represented by Democrat Brad Ellsworth and Republican John Hostettler, also includes all or parts of Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Parke, Pike, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo, Crawford, Dubois, Perry, and Spencer counties.

For more information about Thursday's town hall event, call Erin Pugh at (812) 232-0523.